Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Interpreting the Culture of Ubuntu: The Contribution of a Representative Indigenous African Ethics to Global Bioethics, Leonard T. Chuwa (Fall 2012)
Graduate Recital, Clarinet, Flute, Bassoon, Christopher Ciarlariello (Spring 2012)
Improving Search Results with Automated Summarization and Sentence Clustering, Steven Cotter (Spring 2012)
Character Education: A Relationship with Building Health, Robert Crider (Spring 2012)
The Lived Experience of Parenting a Child Adopted from an Institution in Eastern Europe, Kimberly A Curry-Lourenco (Fall 2012)
The Lived Experience of Counselor Education Doctoral Students in the Cohort Model at Duquesne University, Shirley A Devine (Fall 2012)
Democratically Engaged Community-University Partnerships: Reciprocal Determinants of Democratically Oriented Roles and Processes, Lina Dee Dostilio (Spring 2012)
Enrichment, Characterization and Identification of Microbial Communities Associated with Unconventional Shale Gas Production Water, J. Lucas Eastham (Summer 2012)
Examining Cross-Cultural Counseling Competencies of Substance Abuse Counselors in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Abdelhadi Elamin ( 2012)
The Efficacy of a Social Skills Group in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, Colleen M Evans (Fall 2012)
Graduate Recital, Vocal Performance, Christopher Fiano (Spring 2012)
Coming to Terms with Abusive Childhood Sexual Experiences: A Listening Guide Study of Women's Stories, Melissa Geib (Spring 2012)
Graduate Recital, Violin, Ingrid Gerling (Spring 2012)
Reducing the Use of Seclusion and Restraint in Segregated Special Education School Settings Through Implementation of the Collaborative Problem Solving Model, BethAnn Glew (Spring 2012)
The Effects of a Violence Prevention Intervention on Prosocial Behavior and Perception of School Safety, Cheon Carlon Graham ( 2012)
Flourishing Selfhood in Aristotle and Authentic Selfhood in Heidegger, Jacob Graham ( 2012)
Graduate Recital, Saxophone, Abby Gross (Spring 2012)
Beyond the Brandopolis: A Communicative Approach to City Promotion and Marketing, Kasey Clawson Hudak (Fall 2012)
Using Virtual Worlds to Identify Multidimensional Student Engagement in High School Foreign Language Learning Classrooms, Laura Beth Jacob (Fall 2012)
Quality of Life of Parental Caregivers of Children (1-36 Months) With a Tracheostomy, Rachel A Joseph ( 2012)
Thermal Oxidative Stability of Middle Distillate Fuels: Chemistry of Deposit Formation & Stabilization, Christopher Kabana (Spring 2012)
Diverse Sample Analysis and Sample Preparation Studies Utalizing AP - MALDI-TOF-MS, Sara May Kallop (Summer 2012)
Characterization of the nutritional endoderm in Eleutherodactylus coqui, Uma Karadge (Fall 2012)
Decision Making at College Student Newspapers, Roger Kelley (Spring 2012)
Theory of Mind, Pragmatic Language, and Social Skills in Male Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Gary Koch ( 2012)
The Ethical Significance of the Virtuous Organization Inspired by Catholic Mission for the Delivery of Health Care, Theadora Krause (Summer 2012)
Graduate Recital, Viola, Kate Kroko (Spring 2012)
Inhibiting Bacterial Biofilm Formation on Stainless Steel 316L Using Self-Assembled Monolayers, Kristen Marie Kruszewski (Fall 2012)
Beyond Tolerations and Accomodation: Amicable Religious Coexistence in the Late Medieval Balkans, Marianne Kupin (Spring 2012)
John Henry Newman and Georges Florovsky: An Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue on the Development of Doctrine, Daniel Lattier (Fall 2012)
Challenging the Nation: English Women's Novels, 1915-1927, Jennifer L. Lauren (Fall 2012)
On New Rhetoric, John Henry Newman and the Language of Metaphors: Implications for Branding Higher Education, Jennifer Lynn Lawler-Brunner (Fall 2012)
Executive Function Variance in a School-Based Behavioral Screener, Ryan Lenz ( 2012)
Student Peer-Group Focusing in Psychology Training: A Phenomemological Study, Amanda Burleigh Lowe (Summer 2012)
Rhetorically Ascribed Meaning in Marketing: The Role of Narrative in Establishing Exchange Value, Paul A Lucas (Summer 2012)
A Research Study of Transformational Leadership Comparing Leadership Styles of the Principal, Kathleen Luft (Spring 2012)
Improvement of Release Criteria for Immediate Release Solid Oral Dosage Forms, Phillip Lunney (Summer 2012)
Effectiveness of manual gesture treatment on residual /r/ articulation errors, Jessica Lynch ( 2012)
Bayesian Regression Inference Using a Normal Mixture Model, Hernan Maldonado ( 2012)
Structure Based Ligand Design for Monoamine Transporters and Mitogen Activated Kinase 5, Sankar Manepalli (Spring 2012)
The Effectiveness of Creating a Sense of Community in Online Learning with Social Awareness Information, Darren Mariano (Spring 2012)
Communicative Meaning: Otherwise than the Denial of Death, Douglas John Marshall ( 2012)
Self-Report Anxiety and Depression Ratings Among Adolescents with an Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Comparison of Individuals with and without a History of Sexual Offending, Stephanie N Marshall ( 2012)
The Effect of Risk Assessment on Racial Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System, Joseph Martin ( 2012)
Identity and Christ: The Ecclesiological and Soteriological Implications of Raimon Panikkar's Cosmotheandric Theology, Michael Martocchio (Spring 2012)
Graduation Recital, Piano, Jamie Mazza (Spring 2012)
St. Catherine of Siena: Vocation as Engaged Scholarship, Christina McDowell (Spring 2012)
The Effects of Classroom Response Systems on Student Learning and Engagement, Michael McNally (Summer 2012)
The Federal Workforce Development Program: An Analysis of Probationers and Characteristics Associated with and Predictive of Successful Reentry, Kelley McNichols (Summer 2012)
Computational techniques to illuminate secrets of the monoamine transporters, Bonnie A. Merchant (Fall 2012)
Graduate Recital, Piano, Josiane Merlino (Spring 2012)
The Governor's Commission On Training America's Teachers: Response From Pennsylvania's Secondary School Principals, Denise A Morelli ( 2012)
The Impact of the Symphonological Approach to Ethical Decision Making on Advanced Level Nursing Students, Megan Ann Mraz (Fall 2012)
Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) and Ethnic Target Marketing: A Communitarian Ethical Framework in Action, Denise Christine Murphy Gerber (Fall 2012)
Graduate Recital, Piano, Benjamin Murray (Spring 2012)
The Effect of Caffeine and Choline on Short-term Memory, Natasha Nagrecha (Spring 2012)
Modeling the NCAA Tournament Through Bayesian Logistic Regression, Bryan Nelson ( 2012)
The Lived Experiences of the Aging of Hong Kong Chinese Baby Boomers Residing in the United States, Helena Ng (Summer 2012)
The Spirit as the Lord and the Giver of Life: Recovering Relational Pneumatology and Its Significance for Being Church in Postcolonial Nigeria, Okechukwu Njoku (Spring 2012)
A Phenomenological-Hermeneutic Study of Adept Practitioners' Experiences of Focusing, Sarah Nokes-Malach (Summer 2012)
Computational Investigation of the Mechanism of N5-Carboxyaminoimidazole Ribonculeotide Synthetase, Venkata Pakkala (Fall 2012)
The Effects of Total Dissolved Solids on Locomotory Behavior and Body Weight of Streamside Salamanders, and a Baseline Survey of Salamander Diversity and Abundance, Meghan Pascuzzi (Spring 2012)
Graduate Recital, Voice, Elizabeth Patterson (Spring 2012)
Decolonizing Psychic Space: Remembering the Indigenous Psychology Movement in Taiwan, Rong-Bang Peng (Fall 2012)
Crisis Management by Social Movements: Learning from Indian Microfinance, Andrew Pickup (Summer 2012)
Propaganda Use by the Union and Confederacy in Great Britain during the American Civil War, 1861-1862, Annalise Policicchio (Summer 2012)
Metalated Nitriles: NMR and Cyclization Analysis, Matthew Thomas Purzycki (Spring 2012)
Career and Technical Education in the Crossroads of Change, Janice Quailey (Fall 2012)
Graduate Recital, Clarinet, Paul Quinn (Spring 2012)
Health Communication: Toward a Phenomenological Perspective, Bonnie Reese (Fall 2012)
The Meaning and Experiences of Healthy Eating in Mexican American Children: A Focused Ethnography, Alicia Kay Ribar (Spring 2012)
The Lady Showroom: Optical Representations in the Works of Joanna Baillie and Louisa Stuart Costello, Katherine Richards (Spring 2012)
The Role of Forensic Nurses in Communities Experiencing Environmental Contamination, Wendy Robinson (Spring 2012)
The Effect of Resveratrol on Lipopolysaccharide-induced Dopaminergic Deficits and BV-2 Cell Activation, Katherine Marie Rose (Spring 2012)
A Baseline Study of Chemical Parameters and Microbial Diversity of Two Streams in the Ten Mile Creek Watershed in Southwestern Pennsylvania, Jennifer Rutter ( 2012)
Teacher-Child Interaction Therapy: Efficacy with a Clinical Preschool Population, Kristen Friedrich Schaffner (Spring 2012)
Neuropsychological Predictors of Math Calculation and Reasoning in School-Aged Children, Dana Schneider (Fall 2012)
Characterization of the Hepatitis C Virus Genome Interactions with the microRNA miR-122: Potential New Therapeutic Targets for Peptide Nucleic Acid Based Strategies, Valerie Schrott (Spring 2012)
Cyberbullying and Suicide among a Sample of LGBTQ Young Adults, Heather Schwickrath (Summer 2012)
Is It Choice or Is It Interest?: The Effect of Choice and Interest on the Cognitive and Affective Engagement of Elementary Students Performing a Reading Task, Jerilyn Scott ( 2012)
Examining Relational Aggression and Conflict Resolution Skills In Overtly Aggressive Non-Caucasian Females, Jessica R Scott ( 2012)
Grace in Intimate Interpersonal Communication: C.S. Lewis on its Presence and Practice, Celeste Seymour (Summer 2012)
Human Trafficking and Health Care Professionals: Assessment of Medical and Nursing Education Programs' Curricula on Recognizing and Helping Victims of Human Trafficking, Nurlanbek Sharshenkulov (Summer 2012)
Depictions of Mental Disorder in Mainstream American Film 1988-2010, Catherine A. Sherman (Fall 2012)
Graduate Recital, Violin, Caitlin Shroyer (Spring 2012)
Graduate Recital, Trumpet, Stephen Slivka (Spring 2012)
Graduate Recital, Violin, Anton Smirnov (Spring 2012)
Interpreting Material Cooperation as a Function of Moral Development to Guide Ministry Formation, Steven Squires (Spring 2012)
Perceptions of School Climate and Connectedness:The Impact of a Cross Age Peer Mentoring Program, Kathleen Staude-Sites (Summer 2012)
Explaining the Role of Scripture in the Economy of Redemption as it Relates to the Theological and Hermeneutical Contributions of David Tracy, Hans Frei, Kevin Vanhoozer and Henri de Lubac, Kevin Storer (Spring 2012)
Nurse Educators' Perceptions About the Culture of Nursing and Their Role in Bringing Students into that Culture: A Focused Ethnography, Susan Maria Strouse (Spring 2012)
Beliefs and Technology - Does One Lead to the Other? Evaluating the Effects of Teacher Self-Efficacy and School Collective Efficacy on Technology Use in the Classroom, Elaine Studnicki (Spring 2012)
An Investigation of the Additive Benefits of Parent Dialogic Reading Techniques in Older Preschool Children, Sarah O'Neill Switalski (Fall 2012)
Embodying Technology: A Hermeneutic Inquiry into Corporeality and Identity as Manifested in a Case of Strap-On Dildo Use, Amy Taylor ( 2012)
Literary Imagination and Community Mental Health: A Deleuzian Analysis of Discourse in a Fiction Reading Group, Rodney Teague (Summer 2012)
"Freedom of Speech and Religion?": Psychological Intelligence that Overthrew a Guatemalan Government, 1952-1954, Sean Thearle (Spring 2012)
Listening to Language in Gadamer's Hermeneutics, Sanda Tomuletiu (Summer 2012)
The Triptych Tetrad: Marshall McLuhan's Neo-Medieval Communication Theory, Anthony Wachs (Spring 2012)